Title

Aylesbury Estate, Walworth, Southwark, London, 28/06/1968. Creator: John Laing plc.

Caption

Aylesbury Estate, Walworth, Southwark, London, 28/06/1968. Two women working in the computer room of Laing's construction site at the Aylesbury Estate. In 1963, John Laing and Son Ltd bought the rights to the Danish industrialised building system for flats known as ‘Jespersen’ (also called 'Jesperson'). The company built factories in Scotland, Hampshire and Lancashire producing Jespersen prefabricated parts and precast concrete panels, allowing the building of housing to be rationalised, saving time and money. Laing's Southern Region started building the Aylesbury Estate in 1967. At the time it was the largest industrialised housing scheme ever undertaken by a London Borough, providing homes for more than 7000 people, comprising of low and high-rise linear blocks from four to fourteen-storeys high containing flats and maisonettes.

Date

1968

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM22A00_127

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

80,1Mo (2,9Mo) / 44,8cm x 44,8cm / 5292 x 5288 (300dpi)

Keywords

London England female women woman people work office job technology typing fashion worker country writing housing occupation British English dress location century housing estate Britain profession TYPIST typewriter concept B&W office worker Sixties computer room Construction Industry black & white black and white B W Southwark 1960s 20th century workers TGN typing pool Walworth working photograph Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc John Laing & Co John Laing and Company John Laing & Company John Laing and Co Aylesbury Estate